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Since the release of the free DCS: Marianas WWII map and the Magnitude 3 DCS: F4U-1D Corsair, we want to provide an update on the extensive effort being devoted to bringing this scenario to life with the PTO Assets Pack. Learning from some of the European Theatre of War scenarios, the PTO scenario is focused on providing an extensive order of battle for both US and Imperial Japanese forces in the summer of 1944 and to offer an accurate representation of the battle for the Mariana Islands and the Battle of the Philippine Sea. New player aircraft coming for this scenario will include both the F6F-3 Hellcat and the A6M5 Zero. Since our last update on this project, we can now share with you the specific air, land, and sea units being developed for the PTO Assets Pack, which owners of the existing World War II Assets Pack will be able to purchase with a 30% discount: As always, subject to change. United States Aircraft F6F “Hellcat” SB2C “Helldiver” TBF “Avenger” SBD-5 “Dauntless” PBY “Catalina” P-38L “Lightning” United States Ships Enterprise aircraft carrier Casablanca-class light aircraft carrier Independence-class light aircraft carrier New Orleans-class heavy cruiser Baltimore-class heavy cruiser Cleveland-class light cruiser Fletcher-class destroyer Liberty-class transport Cimmaron-class oiler United States Ground Forces M4A2 Sherman M3A1 “Stuart” light tank LVT-4 tracked landing vehicle LVT(A)-4 tracked landing vehicle DUKW-353 amphibious truck US Marine Corp infantryman US Navy Carrier personnel US Navy seaman Imperial Japanese Aircraft A6M5 “Zero” D4Y “Judy” D3A “Val” B6N “Jill” Imperial Japan Ships Shokaku aircraft carrier Chitose light aircraft carrier Kongo battleship Mogami heavy cruiser Agano-class light cruiser Yugumo-class destroyer Kagero-class destroyer Kashino-class transport Imperial Japanese Ground Forces Type 94 Tankette Type 95 Ha-Go tank Kurogane Type 95 car Type 97 Te-Ke tank Type 97 Chi-Ha tank Type 97 ShinHoTo tank Type 2 Ka-M amphibious tank Type 1 47mm anti-tank gun Type 98 20mm anti-aircraft gun Type 91 10cm towed artillery Type 92 70mm towed artillery Type 10 120mm anti-aircraft gun Imperial Japanese Army Infantryman Japan Navy seaman

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Looks normal here, you can include some screenshots and a track and we can take a look. Its not gonna be as sharp as the TGP.

Training 6 Reported Training 7 I didnt have much issue with this one. Training 8 Reported, Depression seems broken as you cant set the first number past 1. Training 9 Same as 8, with the Depression not working right it seems these wont work right. Training 13 No issue here taking off, this one might just take some practice. Training 14 Reported

This is already requested internally, thanks!

theHACKERMAN Thanks for the detailed and well-done report, very nice first post effort. The team has replicated this report, and it is now reported. Thanks!

Well, that was... something... Honestly, aside from what I assume was AI-written and voiced text, it gets many things wrong or makes reaching assumptions, perhaps based on research from ChatGPT? I am not going for a point-for-point rebuttal as this is old, old news, and I have enough going on without reliving past speedbumps in the winding highway that is DCS. SD is correct, we have been thinking about PTO for a loooooong time, Marianas as a free map with a WWII version was planned ages ago, so no, do not drag us into anyone elses story, the world is not that big and conflicts happened in many locations that games will overlap, we do not try and stop anyone from making their own vision of any particular theater. The P-51D was what was supposed to become a Flying Legends collection in DCS, modelling some of the most epic warbirds of that and other eras. RRG came along and wanted to create an all-encompassing ETO theatre, when they saw that much of their Kickstarter went towards the first aircraft, which started the death spiral. That first WWII fighter will make or break a 3rd Party, I think, in many cases, they are more difficult to model correctly (at least when it comes to flight modelling). We never had the manpower to do a full-blown WWII sim. We picked up the pieces the best we could, and we have what we have now. With the F4U coming and the Hellcat being a favourite of the boss, a dip into the PTO theatre just made sense. If we do a Zero... oh my, while other games could do many different Zeros, our version, if we can, would be... epic. Anyways... Let sleeping dogs lie, I will leave this video here and open, but not sure I care to see anymore here I know how it ends.

The best place would be a wishlist item with publicly available evidence of what you are looking for.

if later we are 100% sure of adding a new feature, we will add it to the roadmap then, but not before. Thanks

I understand your concerns, but I can say that ASC has worked very well with us to ensure that safeguards are in place to ensure support no matter of most any unforseeable issues. But I totally understand the desire to tread carefully.

Most likely later, when we have a firm date, which is required for Steam Preorders. Thanks.

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Even still, I believe it applies, but I will look a little deeper before I say the final correct as-is, we did adjust this sometime ago with comments from Mover's video, I believe, all things considered, as mentioned, the team is happy.

This contradicts with SME input and firsthand experience by at least one team member who has flown the USAF's F-16 simulator more than once. Based on this, a considerable amount of back stick force is required to rotate, unlike the Hornet. Keep in mind the differences in personal control setups and types. Thanks

Please create a new bug report with appropriate tracks, etc. Thanks.

Please include a track and someone can take a look, thanks!

I'm looking into it, seems to be something going on, thanks!

Thanks, I also saw on the Afghanistan map, I will bring it to the team to see if there is anything that can be done.

Have you noticed it on other maps? This is caused by the image being so low res, as you noticed I am sure, activating XR cleaned it up. I'll have to test with other maps to see if a similar effect is seen.

Thanks I will take a look.

I appreciate the disucssion, but please remember its hard to pick up bug reports from a thread like this so if you think you found something wrong, make sure to do a bug report. Thanks!

NTTR is the second-oldest terrain (the oldest of all maps using new terrain tech, as Caucasus is a hybrid of new and old). Since the release of a map, improvements and changes to how maps are made have been introduced, making it much more complex to go back and make changes the older the map. Even with that, it clearly states in Wags' video that the goal is to revisit these maps, but your use of abandoned is simply wrong. Nobody is shrugging it off, we literlay said we want to revisit when the schedule opens up, we do not have unlimited dev time. Please watch Wags' video again, it should make sense if you do. Thanks.

Yeah, we are weighing what it will do for those that want optics simulated more accurately for the older TGPs, and others that want to keep the older TGPs the way they are. An option would be nice, but it could then snowball from there. So, we will weigh options. However, the optics of the AAQ-33 are accurate, and have no plans or need to adjust those. The most common issue we see with customer use of the AAQ-33 is not taking advantage of the NARO field of views, remembering to first stabilize in Point, Area, or INR, and then using XR processing.

We will need a track if you want us to take a look, thanks. Edit: I just set up an orbit around a target and tried a number of different views and didnt see anything concerning, so please share a track of this issue you are seeing when you can. Thanks.

Except you didn't break anything, you just did it wrong